OLDISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oldish mean? 

• OLDISH (adjective)
  The adjective OLDISH has 1 sense:

1. somewhat elderly

  Familiarity information: OLDISH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLDISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Somewhat elderly

Similar:

old ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age)

 Context examples 

The one was an oldish man with a thin beard, a crooked nose, and a broad red smudge from a birth-mark over his temple; the other was a negro, a thing rarely met in England at that day, and rarer still in the quiet southland parts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)